Overview
- The helicopter went down during a training flight into the wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Dorcheh, Khomeinishahr, near Isfahan.
- Military victims were identified as Colonel Hamed Sarvazad, the pilot, and Major Mojtaba Kiani, the co-pilot, along with two market workers.
- Emergency responders extinguished a fire at the market, cleared debris, and secured the crash site.
- The Army Aviation Training Centre and the local judiciary initiated formal probes as the precise cause remains under review.
- The crash follows an F-4 fighter jet accident near Hamedan days earlier, renewing scrutiny of aviation safety as analysts cite sanctions and an aging fleet.